User:Berkow, JoAnne/sandbox

JB Berkow has been selling art for over forty years. She was the founder of one of the most successful cooperatives in the country, Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1976 http://www.touchstonegallery.com/History.html. In 1995, after moving to Florida, she, along with Robert Simmons the famed brush maker, founded Frenchman's Art Gallery and Studios, Inc. http://visulate.com/rental/visulate_search.php?CORP_ID=P95000041313. This was a membership gallery where artists worked and exhibited their work under the guidance, Ms. Berkow who ran the company. This remained open for a decade until she opened RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery in 2005 www.rosettastonefineart.com. She also does corporate art consulting www.rosettastonecorporateart.com. Berkow's own work is internationally renown with pieces in the permanent collections of the Vatican Museums Collections of Contemporary Art [] the Tsai Performing Performing Arts Center [at Boston University], and the West Palm Beach International Airport [www.pbia.org].

She is also a published poet and a writer with three books to her credit. "What They Didn't Teach You In Art School" is a comprehensive treatise on how to take your art career to the next level. "Painted Poetry" is a monograph covering fifteen years of the artist's career with poetry that she wrote for each image http://www.rosettastonefineart.com/books.asp. Right now she is concentrating a lot of her energy on her latest philanthropic endeavor, the Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts www.benzaitencenter.org.  She is currently working on creating an art fabrication center where artists can find an affordable place to create their work. It is planned to have a fine art steel foundry, ceramic studio and a glass blowing studio.